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Operating Systems AIX AIX 6.1, POWER5 and Spectre/Meltdown Post 303012009 by MichaelFelt on Saturday 27th of January 2018 02:46:11 PM
Old 01-27-2018
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Originally Posted by richardsantink
AIX 7.2 will only install on Power7 and newer.

Meltdown and Spectre affect all Power systems:
IBM Systems Magazine - Security Vulnerability Impacts POWER Processors
While I am not an expert in this area - I do recall POWER6 does not do branch prediction. It is blazes ahead - and if the instruction path is wrong - then the pre-fetch is just thrown away.

The idea was that the tremendous jump in clock-speed was enough that the 'occasional' missed prediction was worth it. In other words - processor heat was from raw speed, rather than from parallel calculations computing branch prediction.

Again, not an expert - whether these vulnerabilities stem from any pre-fetch, or only from "predicted branch pre-fetch" - I don't know.

Yes, it's out there - and I am actually a bit more curious to hear about the 'monitors' or signature-scanners that get built to spot anything attempting to exploit it.
 

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LinPred(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      LinPred(3pm)

NAME
PDL::Filter::LinPred - Linear predictive filtering SYNOPSIS
$a = new PDL::Filter::LinPred( {NLags => 10, LagInterval => 2, LagsBehind => 2, Data => $dat}); ($pd,$corrslic) = $a->predict($dat); DESCRIPTION
A filter by doing linear prediction: tries to predict the next value in a data stream as accurately as possible. The filtered data is the predicted value. The parameters are NLags Number of time lags used for prediction LagInterval How many points each lag should be LagsBehind If, for some strange reason, you wish to predict not the next but the one after that (i.e. usually f(t) is predicted from f(t-1) and f(t-2) etc., but with LagsBehind => 2, f(t) is predicted from f(t-2) and f(t-3)). Data The input data, which may contain other dimensions past the first (time). The extraneous dimensions are assumed to represent epochs so the data is just concatenated. AutoCovar As an alternative to Data, you can just give the temporal autocorrelation function. Smooth Don't do prediction or filtering but smoothing. The method predict gives a prediction for some data plus a corresponding slice of the data, if evaluated in list context. This slice is given so that you may, if you wish, easily plot them atop each other. The rest of the documentation is under lazy evaluation. AUTHOR
Copyright (C) Tuomas J. Lukka 1997. All rights reserved. There is no warranty. You are allowed to redistribute this software / documentation under certain conditions. For details, see the file COPYING in the PDL distribution. If this file is separated from the PDL distribution, the copyright notice should be included in the file. perl v5.14.2 2011-03-30 LinPred(3pm)
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